dog
The dog or domestic dog (''Canis familiaris'' or ''Canis lupus familiaris'') is a Domestication, domesticated descendant of the wolf which is characterized by an upturning tail. The dog Origin of the domestic dog, derived from an Pleistocene ...
" is one of the 34 Kangxi radical
The 214 Kangxi radicals (), also known as the Zihui radicals, form a system of radicals () of Chinese characters
Chinese characters, also called ''Hanzi'' (), are logograms developed for the writing of Chinese. They have been adapted ...
s (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes
A stroke is a medical condition
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In the ''Kangxi Dictionary #REDIRECT Kangxi Dictionary#REDIRECT Kangxi Dictionary
The ''Kangxi Dictionary'' () is the standard Chinese dictionary during the 18th and 19th centuries. The Kangxi Emperor of Qing Dynasty
The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing (), ...
'', there are 444 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical
Radical may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Music
*Radical (mixtape), ''Radical'' (mixtape), by Odd Future, 2010
*Radical (Smack album), ''Radical'' (Smack album), 1988
*"Radicals", a song by Tyler, The Creator from the 2011 album ''Goblin (album ...
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is also the 66th indexing component in the ''Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components''The Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' () is a lexicography, lexicographic tool used to order the Chinese characters in mainland China. The specification is also known as GF 0011-2009.
In China's normative documents, "radical" is de ...
'' predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese
Simplified Chinese characters are standardized Chinese characters
Chinese characters, also called ''hanzi'' (), are logogram
In a written language
A written language is the representation of a spoken or gestural language by ...
dictionaries published in mainland China
The term "mainland China" refers to the area directly governed by the People's Republic of China
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, with being its associated indexing component.
Evolution
Oracle bone script
Oracle bone script () was an ancestor of modern Chinese characters engraved on oracle bonesanimal bones or turtle plastrons used in pyromancy, pyromantic divinationin the late 2nd millennium BC, and is the earliest known form of Chinese writin ...
character
File:犬-bronze.svg, Bronze script
Chinese bronze inscriptions, also commonly referred to as bronze script or bronzeware script, are writing in a variety of Chinese scripts
The Chinese family of scripts are writing systems descended from the Chinese Oracle Bone Script
Oracle bo ...
character
File:犬-bigseal.svg, Large seal script
Large Seal script or Great Seal script () is a traditional reference to Chinese writing from before the Qin dynasty (i.e. before 221 BCE), and is now popularly understood to refer narrowly to the writing of the Western and early Eastern Zhou Dynas ...
character
File:犬-seal.svg, Small seal script
Small Seal Script (Chinese
Chinese can refer to:
* Something related to China
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character
Derived characters
Literature
* *External links
Unihan Database - U+72AC
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